LCDAnthony wrote:I've been wondering, since we have dreams they seem to last... oh say 10 minutes to us, but in reality they actually last less than split second.

I don't know about that. I'm sure they last longer than that.

But with a lucid dream, I feel that it lasts as long as it felt like it lasted. Since my conscious self is awake, I remember it the same way I remember doing something in reality. And we have a pretty good sense of time with our conscious minds. If you were to sit in a room with no clock for a while and then leave and guess how long you were in there for, you can be quite accurate. 5 minutes feels different than 10, 15 or 30. (Once it starts being over an hour or so it can get hard.) But since I have a good sense of time when awake, I feel the timing in a lucid dream is the same.

But when non-lucid it can be hard to tell with any degree of accuracy, but I'm sure dreams that feel like 10 minutes lasted longer than a split second. If that were the case... then in a 3 hour REM dream state, every second being 10 minutes of dreams... (calculating.... carry the one..... IT'S A LONG TIME! TOO LONG FOR THAT TO BE TRUE.)

This is probably jut your perspective of time. Time is relative so it is not a real thing. Like if you are having fun a few hours could feel like a lot less then if you are extremely bored for the same amount of time. A 4 hours of havin fun and being bored could feel extremely different. So you could potentially have a dream that could last an hour of dream time but be 15 minutes of real time